[2.2] Occultist (Contagion + Essence Drain) Beginner starting build

Any tips for boss fights and leveling trees?

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acc1986 wrote:

Any tips for boss fights and leveling trees?

Boss fights, chaos golem and spell totem up, usually draws the boss to attack them, then contagion and ED him while kiting around the map. Currently 71 and haven't changed my wand, gloves, or shield since early in cruel and having no issues doing tier 4-5 maps. Once I gear better will be trying some higher ups.

I don't think anyone has posted a leveling tree yet. Might throw my path up when I get home tonight.

Has anyone had success going CI? I have 4 skill points waiting and I really want to go down that path, not sure yet if the life gain from ED is helping me stay alive or not yet, although every map I run almost all creeps are dead before they hit me.

Hiya all, I'm a new player and I'm running this build on my first character. However when running Blasphemy with 2 curses I find that the AoE is rather small and that I barely have mana to spend. 70% reserved really hurts.
Will this change later on or am I missing some unique that would provide mana?
I'm currently level 50, don't know if that changes anything.

i decided to only use 1 curse with blasphemy.. and use inc. aoe in my 4link. and temp chains.. the range is really fun like that

Absolutely loving this build so far.

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xjeroen wrote:

Hiya all, I'm a new player and I'm running this build on my first character. However when running Blasphemy with 2 curses I find that the AoE is rather small and that I barely have mana to spend. 70% reserved really hurts.
Will this change later on or am I missing some unique that would provide mana?
I'm currently level 50, don't know if that changes anything.

I had the same problem in the previous league, but for some reason I have no mana problems now whatsoever.

This is the tree I'm currently running:


(With my normal ascendancy points to profane bloom)

And I'm gonna turn it into something like this (Based on the tree by PathOfShalti, posted on page 9):

With profane bloom, Void Beacon, and Either Wicked Ward or Malediction.

I found a Doedre's Damning, so I'm probably gonna go for Wicked Ward.

I'm thinking of trying this build out and was wondering if it's better to fill the witch or shadow side of the tree first while leveling?

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xjeroen wrote:

Hiya all, I'm a new player and I'm running this build on my first character. However when running Blasphemy with 2 curses I find that the AoE is rather small and that I barely have mana to spend. 70% reserved really hurts.
Will this change later on or am I missing some unique that would provide mana?
I'm currently level 50, don't know if that changes anything.

Blasphemy's aura size scales on its gem level so it will be large enough later but can feel a bit off early. Also you can trade up the ES/life wheel between shadow/witch for the mana regen/life wheel between tempalar/witch if your having some mana issues. Also running a mana pot might be needed as well. Once your a higher level the mana per level you get will help a lot.

Anybody got a CI tree with +1 curse? I just found that helmet! and I am looking to perfect my gear, any ideas on a CI witch?

Here is my gear, feel free to critique

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Hi, I'm a beginner in PoE and I decided to try this build out in HC Perandus, It is boring at first but begins to be a lot of fun, and is pretty safe considering you contagion+essence drain wipes multiple rooms. I made a skilltree of my own for this build and I was hoping to get some criticism for it from you. I looked and saw that your tree only had 189% increased hp which is not good enough for HC in my opinion, I opted out of +area damage since contagion really doesn't add much damage but is just there to help spread essence drain, which does not benefit from area damage. The other thing this tree doesn't have is jewel sockets, which at the moment i'm not sure matters or not, i've not seen any jewels I'd like to have.



Compare your tree to mine with the offline planner, please leave me some feedback!